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: engaging in or characterized by foolish or nonsensical talk or writing. … the rantings and ravings of blathering scientists and religious literalists … Michael Gregory. … the decade's salient features: blathering ignorance, smug hypocrisy, institutionalized fraud and vengeful polarization—all too dangerous to be merely absurd. H. Jack Geiger.
The earliest known use of the noun blether is in the late 1700s. OED's earliest evidence for blether is from 1786, in the writing of Robert Burns, poet. It is also recorded as a verb from the early 1500s. blether is of multiple origins. Either (i) formed within English, by conversion.
3 days ago · We’ll disregard all the blather about hotel and tourist taxes paying for it and new bonds being issued and those marvelous things called TIFs helping out. The very definition of tax increment ...
